Nine New York Times employees, including a Jewish man, have filed a lawsuit charging that they were subjected to racial and religious discrimination while working at a printing plant.
An Israeli Supreme Court ruling postponing a decision to expedite the aliyah of some 17,000 Ethiopians who claim Jewish ancestry has enraged the Jewish Agency for Israel and given American Jewry time to mobilize its troops.
Signifying a change from President Bush’s first term, top foreign policy officials in the Bush administration are aggressively courting European nations to play a more active role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.